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In the middle of a year rife with change and challenges I did not choose, I found myself craving a challenge of my choosing. Enter Author School and a friend’s nudging, and here I am.
I am a mother of two fiercely independent, beautifully created masterpieces of whimsy. They light my life with laughter, but I have struggled with motherhood in the nearly six years that I have grown into the role of ‘mom.’
Education has always been my calling – it’s a profession in which I feel a divine sense of purpose. Lately, I’ve been questioning whether my time in education needs to end to save my mental health. I wonder if it’s time to live into my adamant refusal to martyr myself to the mythical ‘greater good’ for which I am supposed to sacrifice myself. It’s a heavy time to be a teacher. This crossroads in our nation is also an intersection in my own life.
As I move through each day, I am bombarded with words – all day words – and I crave the discipline and focus of intentional writing. I took the leap and said ‘yes’ to this course in hopes that what the people around me have seen and encouraged in me has a life outside my mind and small circles. I want to speak life into the grey areas, to the quiet places we are supposed to feel shame and keep silent, to the humanity we so often hide.
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